Post by Adam B on Mar 9, 2007 8:28:15 GMT -5
Last week The City Council of New York made a misguided attempt at racial harmony when they “banned” the use of the N-bomb (which is "nigger," for the three of you who didn’t get that reference). Banned has to be in quotes because according to the Reuters article it “carries no penalty.” In essence, a governing body got together and spent a day not trying to clean up the city, or solve any real problems, but instead coming up with a vision of a racial slur-free city and wanted to announce “nigger” is a bad word. This is, of course, something any third grader could have told you, but they wouldn’t have taken tons of meetings to do it and wouldn’t have been paid to do so. Last year when Kramer dropped his numerous N-bombs on stage I stated my opinion on the matter, but now that New York City is looking to regulate words and essentially call into action a kind of language prohibition, I think the inanity of the idea deserves another look.
For the full story click here: adambernard.blogspot.com/2007/03/language-prohibition-nigger-ban.html